Mantel chime-clock.



W. E. PORTER.

MANTEL CHIME CLOCK APPLICATION FILED on. 11. I911.

Patented Jan.1,191&

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1- &

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILSON E. PORTER, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO- NEW HAVEN CLOCK (10., OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

. MANTEL CHINE-CLOCK.

- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. -1, 1918.

Application filed October 17, 1917. Serial No. 197,151. I

v To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that 1, WILSON E. PORTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Mantel Chime- Clocks; and I do hereby declare the following, When taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, in-

Figure 1 a view in front elevation of a mantel-chime-clock embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 a view thereof in rear elevation with a portion of the case broken away, as

well as a portion of the frame of the separately organized chime-hammer mechanism which is installed horizontally within the base of the case.

' Fig. 3 a view of the clock in horizontal section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 a broken view in vertical section on the line 4.4 of Fig. 3,0n an enlarged scale.

Fig. 5 a detached perspective view of the hammer-frame of the chime-hammer mechanism.

My invention relates to an improved mantel-chime clock, the object being to install a chime mechanism of the rOd type in a relatively small mantel-clock case.

With these ends in view, my invention consists in a separately organized rod-chime mechanism adapted to be installed in a horizontal position within the spreading base of a.mantel-clock case and to be operated by a chime-clock movement therein.

My invention further consists in a mantelchime-clock, having certain details of construction as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In carryin out my invention as herein ShOWIlyI emp oy a separately organized rodchime mechanism having a tubular sounder 5 arranged transversely within the spreading, rectangular base 6 of a mantel-clock case 7 having a low domical body mergin by symmetrical stream lines into the sai rectangular base. The said'sounder 5, which is supported within the base 6 at one side of the center thereof by a screw 8, mounts a strike-rod 9 and a series of four chime-rods 10, 11, 12 and 13, these rods being of any approved construction and differentiated in length according to the character of the tones to be produced. The said rods are respectively struck at points close to the sounder 5, by a horizontal series of hammers 14: arranged above their inner ends and mounted upon the free ends of wire hammerarms 15, respectively secured at their opposite ends to hammer-plates 16 mounted in spaced relation upon a horizontal shaft 17 also mounting spacing collars 18, the said shaft 17 being secured at its ends. by screws 19 between the arallel arms 20 of a horizontal hammerrame 21, the said arms 20 being fastened at their inner ends to the flattened inner faces of screw-studs 22'fixed in the sounder 5 which is thus made'to carry the hammer-frame which in turn'mounts all of the hammers. The lower edges of the hammer-plates 16 restupon a buffer 23 applied to the upper face of a plate 24 transversely arranged within the outer end of the frame 21, and secured in place'gby screws 25. Each of the hammer-wires 15% is furnished with an eye 26, whereby the respective hammer-wires are connected by links 27 with complementary hammer-operating wires 28 which latter co-act with pins 32 in the chimedrum 33 of a chime-train periodically re leased for operation by a time-train, the saidchime and time trains being mechanisms of the clock-movement 34 which forms no part of my present invention beyond ts adaptation to periodically operate the llnks 27 for the operation of the hammer-wires 15.

Under my invention as above described, the sounder 5, strike rod 9, chime-rods 10, 11, 12 and 13, and the hammers 1 1 are separately organized for installatlonm a horlzontal position within the spreading base of the mantel-clock-case, the said base being long enou h to permit chime-rods of suitable length to e employed. I clairnz- 1. In a mantel-chime clock, the combination with the case thereof, of a chime-move ment, a separately organized rod chime mechanism adapted to be installed 1n hor1- zontal position within the bottom of the case, and means for connectin the respectlve hammers of the said mec anism with the chime-movement.

2, In a mantel-chime, clock, the combinaanism adapted to be installed in a horizontal position within the spreading base of the said case, and means connecting the chimemovement with the respective hammers of the said rod-chime mechanism.

3. In a mantel-chime clock, the combination with the case thereof, of a chime-movement, a separately organized rod e chime mechanism adapted to be installed in a horimental position within the base of the said ease and comprising a sounder, chime-rods mounted therein, a hammer-frame fastened to the said sounder, and a series of chimehammers mounted in the said frame and arranged above the chime-rods; and means for connecting the respective chime hammers with the mechanism of the chime-movement.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILSON E. PORTER.

Witnesses:

C. L, WEED, M. P. NIoHoLs. 

